Step inside for a tour (budget-friendly at just a few dollars) and prepare for your jaw to hit the floor faster than a circus clown takes a pratfall ... occupies the former winter quarters of the ...

Ringling Theatre, often called “America’s Prettiest Playhouse,” anchors the downtown with its grand French Renaissance style. Built in 1915 by one of the famous Ringling brothers of circus fame ...

The Riverfront Park Pavilion Circus.” This wasn’t a circus in the Ringling Bros. sense – it was a circular collection of attractions centered under the former U.S. Pavilion umbrella.

Indeed, the circus cited the increasing patchwork of local laws when it announced in 2015 that it would finally bow to long-standing public pressure and stop using elephants. Today, Ringling Bros.

Most recently, O'Donnell served for 11 years as the executive director of Circus World, located at the National Landmark Site of the original Ringling Bros. Circus winter quarters. A 64-acre ...

35h Annual Wilmington Earth Day Festival at Long Leaf Park (Credit: Summer Trolli / WWAY News) WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — Although Earth Day was Tuesday April 22nd, the 35th annual Wilmington Earth ...

For 50 years, he was with Ringling Bros., “during which he accompanied every conceivable circus act from the four corners of the earth.” Evans and his band were known for heroically playing long and ...

Courtesy Norton of Michigan Auctioneers Courtesy Norton of Michigan Auctioneers Others include the 1986 Chance Carousel, and three rides from the 1990s: the 1990 Flying Turtles, the 1994 Bone Shaker ...